Wed 5 Mar 2003
One of stories from 3GSM last week concerned various announcements for software enabling Moblogs - where mobile phone users can update their Web logs (Blogs) by SMS or MMS. The carriers are certainly interested, since every new use of MMS allows them a new stream of revenue for moving the bits.
Another susposed trend is audioblogging, posting of audio clips instead of or with text. This would seem to be exceptionally appropriate application for cellphones. But there’s something about actually hearing a voice that changes the equation somewhat. I’m sure that there’s some good and interesting uses for this, but you can’t really skim through an audio clip. It also takes a good bit more work to transmit and receive audio than the written word.
Will this mobility allow more expression or creativity than before? Hard to tell…

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